Alix Tichelman, the woman who made international headlines as the "harbor hooker" and "call girl killer," was taken away by Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after she was released from a Santa Cruz jail last week, sources told KSBW.

ICE had requested that deputies place Tichelman on an immigration hold, but they refused, because doing so went against the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office policies with handling inmates who are illegal immigrants.

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Somehow, ICE agents were still able to find Tichelman as soon as she was freed and took her into federal custody, sources told KSBW's Phil Gomez.

She could end up being deported, sources said.

Tichelman is Canadian.

At the time of her arrest, she had been living with her wealthy parents in Northern California. Tichelman's father is the CEO of a California technology company. She spent most of her childhood growing up in Georgia.

Tichelman served nearly two years in the Santa Cruz County Jail after she pleaded guilty in May of 2015 to felony involuntary manslaughter and administering drugs.

Santa Cruz police said Tichelman, 29, was responsible for the death of a millionaire Google executive, Forrest Timothy Hayes.

The 51-year-old married father of five lived on the westside of Santa Cruz before he died from a heroin overdose on his yacht in the Santa Cruz harbor on Nov. 23, 2013.

Police said Hayes hired Tichelman several times for drug-fueled sex after they met on the website SeekingArrangement.com. Surveillance video from the yacht showed Hayes extending his arm as Tichelman injected him. Police said it was obvious he was dying as he collapsed to the floor, but Tichelman never called 911.

Defense attorney Larry Biggam said Tichelman injected herself with heroin before she injected Hayes, and the drugs clouded her judgment at the time.

"This case is about two adults who were engaged in mutual consensual drug usage in the context of a sexual encounter initiated and encouraged by Mr. Hayes. There was no intent to harm or injure, much less kill, Mr. Hayes. Why would she? He was a lucrative source of income to her," Biggam said in 2014. "To demonize, and sensationalize, and totally blame Alix Tichelman for his death is misplaced, unfair, and simply wrong. She's like a wounded bird."

Police originally recommended homicide charges.

Several charges were later dropped or reduced by prosecutors, she pleaded guilty before the case went to trial, and a judge sentenced her to serve six years in jail.

According to her Facebook profile, Tichelman went to high school in Atlanta, Georgia, majored in journalism at Georgia State University, and worked as a dancer, makeup artist, and model. A YouTube video uploaded in 2012 shows Tichelman giving a makeup tutorial.

Her ex-boyfriend, 53-year-old monkey trainer Dean Riopelle, died from a heroin overdose in Georgia two months before Hayes' death. Riopelle's death was ruled as accidental.